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Tim Copplestone email Tim Copplestone
Partner
Tim is an employment lawyer within the firm’s sport sector and has himself represented Great Britain in kayaking. He is identified as a Leading Individual in the Legal 500 2021.
View profile for Tim Copplestone >Carol Cummins email Carol Cummins
Consultant
Carol enjoys long term relationships with her clients and likes to get to know the families well so that she can help them at each key step in life with a focus on protecting the family wealth from erosion by tax and outside claims so it remains in the family for future generations.
View profile for Carol Cummins >Paul Davies email Paul Davies
Partner
Paul is a Partner and head of the private capital team in Clarke Willmott's Manchester office. Paul specialises in estate planning, Wills, & trusts for clients with complex family and finance arrangements.
View profile for Paul Davies >Anthony Fairweather email Anthony Fairweather
Partner
Anthony specialises in UK and international Court of Protection finance work and elderly care law and is also a professional deputy.
View profile for Anthony Fairweather >Marc Long email Marc Long
Head of Employment and HR Team/COFA
Marc Long is the Head of Clarke Willmott's Employment and HR team specialising in TUPE and outsourcing.
View profile for Marc Long >Chris Longbottom email Chris Longbottom
Partner and National Family Team Manager at Clarke Willmott
Chris provides advice on complex financial cases; often involving business interests, trusts, children, foreign assets and pensions.
View profile for Chris Longbottom >Simon Thomas email Simon Thomas
Partner
Simon helps businesses and their owners with their Corporate legal issues, advising on business structuring, funding and M&A transactions.
View profile for Simon Thomas >Emma Barry email Emma Barry
Senior Associate - Tax & Trusts
Advising Trustees, Individuals and Executors on various taxation issues, to include inheritance tax, capital gains tax, income tax and stamp duty land tax, looking both at the UK based implications but can address aspects with offshore elements when these arise.
View profile for Emma Barry >Our expertise in action
International Probate – An American Estate
We were instructed by the US executor of the estates of her mother and grandmother in relation to a dormant UK shareholding that formed part of the estate.
Read moreInternational Software House
Our client, a US based software house, retained us to advice and act on a dispute with a Spanish purchaser of its software.
Read moreTrade Mark Infringement: International Retail Group
Our client is an international retail group. It became aware of a retail group in a different sector changing its trade mark such that it closely resembled that of our client. Both parties traded in multiple jurisdictions.
Read moreClarke Willmott advises on sale of Proper Cornish to French group
Clarke Willmott have advised on the sale of food...
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